Serverless technologies such as Azure Functions remain an important tool for building modern, cloud-based applications. They provide a framework for rapid scaling and help keep costs to a minimum ...

Azure Functions is the serverless compute offering in the Microsoft Azure cloud. Essentially, “serverless” means you don’t even need a virtual machine to run an Azure Function.

Microsoft is making available a new 'serverless compute' service, called Azure Functions, and is making its Platform-as-a-service offering, Azure Service Fabric, generally available.

The Cloud's The Limit with Serverless Architecture and Azure Functions. The cloud has enabled some incredible innovation, like serverless compute, which is transforming the way we build applications ...

Nearly a year after rolling out its Azure Functions serverless compute option for running event-driven, modern PaaS apps and services, Microsoft has given it a cross-platform boost. The company ...

Microsoft is adding support for Java to its Azure serverless compute service. On Oct. 4, Microsoft announced at the JavaOne show that it is making a public preview of Java support for Functions ...

Microsoft also announced the 2.0 GA release of its Durable Functions product, which is an Azure Functions extension that supports stateful functions in a serverless compute environment.

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Java developers can now use Azure Functions, Microsoft ...

Azure Functions provides the serverless compute component of a serverless architecture. As shown in Figure 1 , Azure Functions builds on top of Azure App Service and the WebJobs SDK, adding a bit of ...

Nearly a year after rolling out its Azure Functions serverless compute option for running event-driven, modern PaaS apps and services, Microsoft has given it a cross-platform boost.